With its AppDynamics Spring ‘17 release, the company is setting its sights on aligning the entire business on a single goal -- the ability to continuously delivering high quality mobile and web apps. The latest edition adds a new developer toolkit and major updates to AppDynamics’ Enterprise iQ and Business iQ.

For web site and application operators, attacks at the application layer can be varied – and catastrophic. Webscale is adding a SaaS-based firewall to its cloud-based web application delivery platform.

Oracle is making it easier for companies to bring disruptive apps to life by bringing together several core ingredients – clouds, containers and PaaS. IDN speaks with Oracle execs about its latest Oracle Cloud updates -- Oracle Container Cloud Service and Oracle Application Container Cloud Service.

Software AG is adding a new IoT Analytics Kit to its Apama Streaming Analytics platform to help developers more easily build and launch Internet of Things apps. The offering will a free add-on to Apama’s open source community edition.

Scality is providing developers a local option for dev/test performance and scale of their cloud apps by shipping an equivalent of Amazon’s S3 that is open source, locally-deployable and runs on a single server.

Fiorano is bringing together the best of SOA, APIs, microservices and real-time data architectures into a unified platform for code-free integration aimed at digital transformation projects. IDN looks at how Fiorano delivers customers an “infrastructure for dynamic enterprise services.”

The worlds of API management, cloud, microservices and containers continue to meld as 3scale is shipping a Dockerized version of its nginx-based API gateway ready-to-run on the Red Hat OpenShift V3 PaaS.

Cool APIs are the secret weapons behind today’s most successful companies -- Uber, Netflix, Airbnb, PayPal, NEST, Amazon, Facebook, Google, Twitter and many more. IDN is launching the ‘Cool API Series’ to help you answer that voice in your head that says: “Geez! That app or business is sooo cool. Could we ever do that?”

Companies moving to hybrid IT often face a challenge to bridge legacy infrastructure with new virtualization and cloud technologies. Rocana One brings together IT monitoring and big data technologies to meet this challenge.

Big data as a service provider Bigstep just launched a ‘data lake as a service’ offering, the Full Metal Data Lake. It looks to remove much of the cost, hassle and complexity of big data and data management at such explosive scale.

As 2016 begins, organizations are going on the offense to combat cyber threats, according to a report this month by Deloitte LLP. Companies and government agencies are no longer satisfied with simply "locking the doors" where cybersecurity is concerned, said the 2016 Deloitte Analytics Trends report.